Sharp Plans Move Into U.S. Market
With Entertainment-Centered PDAs

OSAKA, Japan -- Sharp Corp. plans to wade into the crowded U.S. market with an entertainment-oriented gadget that will offer Internet access and downloading of color video.

This marks the latest attempt by Japan's dominant player in palm-size computing devices to break into foreign markets with its line of personal digital assistants, or PDAs. Sharp has seized the dominant position in Japan and its PDAs are widely used by businesspeople here. But Sharp will face strong competition from Palm Inc. and Japanese rival Sony...